FelixTM Wrote:I don't do it. In fact, I've never leeched a single one of my characters. However, I think leeching is okay. Let the lazies be lazy. What's the big deal? I'm not a fan of leechers, but I don't hold it against them. I think many leechers are fabulous players.
I already explained what the big deal is. The economy would be way less crap if no one was leeching. A single high level weapon wouldn't (and shouldn't) cost you 3 billion mesos. Same with less-common skillbooks and such because the demand wouldn't be so high.
Going to draw the parallel back to real life and cheating in school. If 3 students in a class of 30 work hard and get good grades, and everyone else pays Chompy to do their homework for them and gets good grades artificially, when those 3 students go to apply for college/university they're going to be competing with a bunch of people who don't deserve those spots. Same with jobs, if you cheat through post-secondary. Sure those people will inevitably suck at their jobs but it still makes the initial search really difficult for those who deserve good jobs. And it discourages bosses from hiring from that group.
So college/jobs = bossing in maple, those who deserve to be there are left out most of the time because of the extraordinarily high number of people who meet the expected level. Even if those people end up sucking, it's going to discourage party leaders from choosing you or me without making us jump through hoops to prove ourselves first.
@Felix: It doesn't diminish our achievements but it still makes life way harder than it needs to be for us.